stiffness

Meanings

Plural: stiffnesses

Noun

• the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
• the property of moving with pain or difficulty
  • "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
• firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
  • "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"
• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
• excessive sternness
• Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
• Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
• Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
• Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.

Synonyms

awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity